Sweeney Todd: How To Adapt - Bobby Burns 

Jam Jones lol

Hahaha

Lol

I just knewww someone was going to mention Lucas...LOL

Georg Lucas said something about art and it should never be changed >.>

That's rather ingenious to think of. Especially with the removing of the costumed at the end of the play. Not to mention it explains the tone difference too. The play is a play about the tale of Sweeney Todd, the movie IS the story of Sweeney Todd

You just perfectly summed up why I hate Plays. So over-dramatic. But makes a lot of sense.

Pretty fuckin Genius

@@jswid2251 You say that as if anyone these days has common sense.

Literally the ONLY musical I've ever enjoyed to this day in my late 20s. I hate musicals, but I love this movie deeply. I think I know every song.

I never saw it in theaters. I did rent the DVD. Got my own copy, and rewatched it a few times. Recently rewatched it on Netflix, and it's on my "list" of movies I wanna get on blu ray.

It got an Oscar but still it feels underrated

Seems a downright shame...

@@onlookerofthings6029 seems an awful waste

It's a little overzealous at times, but I usually like it.

you'd be surprised

According to Burton, he has always loved this particular musical and this was a passion project of his for a long, long time. I just wish he had stuck with his original decision to NOT give Helena the role of Lovett. She acted it just fine, but she was in no way vocally capable of it. Lovett's role has always been one of the most demanding and difficult ones for musical actresses because of the way Sondheim wrote it. It requires a powerful voice with lots of range, and Burton originally told Helena that she just couldn't manage it. He was right. I think Catherine Zeta-Jones might have been a better fit for the role. Depp, however, who does have the vocals for it has not been confident with his own voice since Crybaby, when the director decided to dub his musical numbers, and had said he would never do another musical. He had to be talked into this role and did it only because Burton was such a good friend and was hounding him. In some behind the scenes clips, you can hear Burton telling Depp during a cut "It does not sound as bad as you think it does." Personally, when I listen to the soundtrack of this movie, I tend to skip Lovett's and Joanna's solos and stick to Anthony and Todd's songs. Everyone else sounds off-key.

Yeah. Someone pointed out to me in a different comment that the easiest way to differentiate the movie and the musical is that in the musical, they perform it as a play. Like they take off their costumes, theres 4th wall breaks. They play the story as a play telling the story of Sweeney Todd. The movie is supposed to BE the story of Sweeney Todd, not a telling of the story. It makes sense for the play yo have a more animate and joyful depiction off effectively a sociopathic murderer villain. And in the movie it's just showing a man who is so driven by a desire to kill, and kill for vengeance, that hes miserable and hates everyone and everything

LOL same

Aracnariser he did it.

"Attend The Tale of Sweeney Todd" was cut because it simply didn't fit the direction the movie was going in.

And for "Kiss Me", it wouldn't have made sense since the plan to run away was already made when Johanna through her key to the boy

doctour two skull yesssss

that sounds absolutely genius

theGagarianplanet I'd like him to reboot Haunted mansion.

he should do it as a stop motion film. I've always wanted to see a stop motion adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Imagine how much fun he could have with the set designs and what not.

I said the same thing about Alice in Wonderland once.

REZZY Or is it that many others in RU-vid aren't talented enough?

REZZY Yeah I love booby

REZZY well n-not really, yeah they're funny but what other platform do they deserve?

I think while they both have some flaws, I do overall agree

TV would throttle his format though too many people in suits telling creators what they can and can't do because the quality of the content comes second to ratings and money in the TV industry that's why RU-vid is the best platform for video creators imo, there's comparatively very little restriction on what they can do

Austin's OP I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that about Fences. Lol. Washington is great and Davis is spectacular, but it is shot WAY too much like a play and could’ve been more stylized to fit the language of film.

That's against the rule, isn't it?

fuck! you're right!!!